Miscellaneous manufactured articles
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Miscellaneous manufactured articles
Common items in this chapter
- —Buttons and press-fasteners (9606)
- —Pens and pencils (9608)
- —Cigarette lighters (9613)
- —Combs and hairslides (9615)
- —Baby carriages (8715 — note: often misplaced here)
Headings in this chapter (20)
Official HS 2022 four-digit headings. Each heading page lists its 6-digit subheadings with the official nomenclature texts.
- 9601 — Ivory, bone, tortoise-shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and…
- 9602 — Vegetable, mineral carving material and articles of these materials, m…
- 9603 — Brooms, brushes (including parts of machines), hand operated floor swe…
- 9604 — Hand sieves and hand riddles
- 9605 — Travel sets; for personal toilet, sewing, shoe or clothes cleaning
- 9606 — Buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs, button mould…
- 9607 — Slide fasteners and parts thereof
- 9608 — Pens; ball-point, felt tipped, other porous tipped pens; fountain pens…
- 9609 — Pencils (not of heading no. 9608), crayons, pencil leads, pastels, dra…
- 9610 — Slates and boards, with writing or drawing surfaces, whether or not fr…
- 9611 — Stamps; date, numbering, sealing stamps and the like (including device…
- 9612 — Typewriter, similar ribbons, inked, otherwise prepared for giving impr…
- 9613 — Cigarette lighters and other lighters, whether or not mechanical or el…
- 9614 — Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders, a…
- 9615 — Combs, hair-slides and similar; hairpins, curling pins, curling grips …
- 9616 — Scent sprays and similar toilet sprays and mounts and heads therefor; …
- 9617 — Vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, complete with cases; parts the…
- 9618 — Tailors' dummies and other lay figures; automata and other animated di…
- 9619 — Sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins (diapers), napkin liners a…
- 9620 — Monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles
Classification notes
A catch-all chapter for manufactured articles not elsewhere classified. Generally low duty rates (0-8%). Cigarette lighters face child-safety standards (ISO 9994) and import restrictions in some markets.
Frequent misclassification
Many 'miscellaneous' items actually have specific chapters — brushes (Chapter 96 heading 9603) vs cosmetic applicators (some in Ch. 96, some in Ch. 33). Check specific headings carefully.
Binding tariff ruling database
If you need certainty on classification, request a binding tariff ruling from your destination country's customs authority. The link below leads to the relevant ruling database.
Binding tariff ruling database